Little lights

[Tapper]

Well, the el wire looks promising, for some other Christmas projects I'm
working on, but it doesn't come in white!!! What's this world coming to?
www.glowire.com has it.
Does anyone have an idea about using plastic gels or sleeves or something to
cancel one of these colors and end up with white?


"ellen" <shpf.pg@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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How about trying the electroluminescent wire that Maplin sells. You should
be able to bend it into any shape or just paint out areas to get the
effect
you need.

Have not tried it myself though

regards


logan

"Rheilly Phoull" <Rheilly@bigpond.com.au> wrote in message
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"Tapper" <oldNOgodsSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I am trying to make lighted Christmas decorations for a dollhouse
(1/12th
scale). The smallest LEDs I have are too big, and the "microlamps"
from
Radio Shack (cute little LED-sized filament bulb) are OK, but they're
expensive (over $1 ea) and I think the heat would be a hazard. I want
strings of lights to go around the edges of the roofs, around Santa
and
Reindeer stand-ups, etc, just like on a real house.

Power reqs aren't important: I can run on batteries, use the DC juice
in
the
house now, or go AC.

My DREAM is to make "icicle" lights, just like the ones that are so
popular
now on real houses. I'm fiddling with fiber optic and clear heatshrink
tubing but the fibers are too stiff when they're short: they won't
dangle
from eaves properly, although horizontal runs are OK.

Any ideas for sources of strings of bitty little lights? Or fringes of
fiber
optic? I want authentic-looking decorations, so I'm trying to create
hundreds of points of light. I get a nice effect from staggered fiber
in
clear tubing but it's pretty time-consuming since I'm a beginner.

Thanks
--Pat



The SMD leds are pretty small

--
Regards ............... Rheilly Phoull

 

[Don Bruder]

In article <BZedna_V8Ng7QimiRVn-tw@iwc.net>,
"Tapper" <oldNOgodsSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote:

Well, the el wire looks promising, for some other Christmas projects I'm
working on, but it doesn't come in white!!! What's this world coming to?
www.glowire.com has it.
Does anyone have an idea about using plastic gels or sleeves or something to
cancel one of these colors and end up with white?

You're never going to get white by canceling/filtering colors out of a
source. If you want white, you're going to have to *ADD* whatever color
is lacking. White, when talking of light, is, by definition, *ALL*
colors at essentially equal levels. Remove (ferinstance) red from a
source that's at least sorta close to white, and the "total" output
becomes blue-ish. (Cyan, if you want to get technical) Remove green, and
it becomes purplish. (Magenta, for the tech-types) Remove blue, and the
output goes yellow. (In this case, yellow is also the technical term!
) Obviously, removing a combination of colors brings the third,
un-touched, color into dominance

On the other hand, if you get a strip that's red, and a strip that's
green, and a strip that's blue, and then run 'em together at equal
brightness, you'll get a "total" that's visible as white.

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[Impmon]

1" to 1` dosent sound impossible, any one tell us lenght of C7 christmas
lamp?

1/8th of an inch. Typical C7 is about 1.5" high so a bunch of SMD LED could
fit C7 bulbs on that scale. Soldering them on thin wires and making them
look like mini christmas light would be a challenge though.

I don't think there are anything smaller than SMD LEDs so fiber optic would
be the only way to go for any light smaller than C7 on that scale.

 

[Ian Stirling]

In sci.electronics.equipment Impmon <impmon@digi.mon> wrote:

1" to 1` dosent sound impossible, any one tell us lenght of C7 christmas
lamp?

1/8th of an inch. Typical C7 is about 1.5" high so a bunch of SMD LED could
fit C7 bulbs on that scale. Soldering them on thin wires and making them
look like mini christmas light would be a challenge though.

I don't think there are anything smaller than SMD LEDs so fiber optic would
be the only way to go for any light smaller than C7 on that scale.

I have soldered copper wire to bare LED dice.
About 0.5*0.5*0.5mm.

Great fun.